What’s gone wrong with Australia’s youth mental health?
With youth suicide rates rising from the mid 2000s and astonishing increases in psychiatric drugs being prescribed, where have things gone wrong with the handling of youth mental health?
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Antipsychotics – a horrible replacement for even worse alternatives
When the first antipsychotic, chlorpromazine, emerged in the 1950s it was gleefully described by psychiatrists as a ‘chemical lobotomy’ – as though this was something to aim for.
Akathisia – side effects of psychiatric drugs
“It may be less of a question of patients experiencing fluoxetine-induced suicidal ideation than patients feeling that ‘death is a welcome result’ when the acutely discomforting symptoms of akathisia are experienced on top of already distressing…
Chemical imbalance – psychiatry as a pharma marketing tool
Despite hundreds, if not thousands of contributions from psychiatrists in support of the chemical imbalance theory, some leading voices in the field deny there ever was a theory and the public have been misled. It was all somehow pharmaceutical marketing at fault.
Rape and sexual assault by psychiatrists
“In every house where I come, I will enter only for the good of my patients, keeping myself far from all intentional ill-doing and all seduction, and especially from the pleasures of love with women and men.”
ECT: Is this the best you can do?
It is estimated that the use of ECT (Electroconvulsive Therapy) in the USA alone provides around 1.8 billion dollars in annual income to psychiatry. It is big business and that business is being protected.
Neuroscience is failing psychiatry
“Unfortunately, it is still not possible to cite a single neuroscience or genetic finding that has been of use to the practicing psychiatrist in managing these illnesses despite attempts to suggest the contrary.”
The lunacy of lobotomy
If any activity in psychiatry conjures up pictures of lunatic psychiatrists running around performing sadistic human experimentation on terrified patients, it is lobotomy.
Psychiatric drugs: Australia, what are they doing to your children?
Psychiatric drug prescribing for children is markedly increasing An Australian study regarding psychiatric drug prescribing for children found significant increases in all classes of psychotropic… Read More »Psychiatric drugs: Australia, what are they doing to your children?
How psychiatry polluted itself
Psychiatry has spent years trashing its own credibility by polluting its research record to the point it simply cannot be taken at face value.
“Strategic Planning for Mental Health” J R Rees, 1940
“If we are to infiltrate the professional and social activities of other people I think we must imitate the Totalitarians and organize some kind of fifth column activity!”
Euthanasia for the mentally ill – the slippery slope
Slippery slope? In the debates regarding euthanasia, you hear a lot about the “slippery slope”. Simply, this is where small steps are taken, and often… Read More »Euthanasia for the mentally ill – the slippery slope
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